Analysis Of The Book ' The Year Of 1984 '

WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. Can a world ever be like the scenario that occurs in the the story 1984? Everywhere you go, the government or party in other words are always watching you. They watch you in your house through your telescreen which you could never turn off and they hear you through the bushes. If you do any illegal actions the police might capture you and send you to the Ministry of Love where you would be torchered and beaten up. Actions that includes free thoughts, love, and even expressing who you are could bring in punishments. Writing a diary or opposing the government are also prohibited. In fact, thinking rebellious thoughts is the worst crime one would want to do. As in every modern book, there are plethora of themes in the book, 1984. One of the most powerful themes in this book is it is very difficult to control someone when they are glued to a thought.

In the classic novel 1984 the main character feels a sense of safety based upon the setting of his situation. For example the room above Mr. Charrington’s shop and O’Brien’s house both provide the freedom and release Winston is searching for, mainly because these rooms lack telescreens. These two settings affect the underlying theme of once fear is put out of the mind, trust can be implemented throughout the second book.

The fictional novel, 1984 by George Orwell is about a world run by a totalitarian government, called the Party, which takes away all the freedoms of its citizens by watching over them with high surveillance technology. In addition, the Party uses dishonesty and betrayal to expose people’s true feelings of Oceania, the country where the story takes place. Betrayal is seen throughout society in Oceania through government manipulation and actions made by Winston, Julia and O’Brien, the main characters. Winston’s true self-betrayal comes when he realizes his new passionate love for Big Brother, the leader of the Party and Oceania. The Party fears a rebellion against them, as a result they use different methods to eliminate trust between

George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 cautions against government having too much/excessive amount of power. Winston Smith lives in a society where a totalitarian government tracks their citizen's every move through telescreens and thought police. The government is divided among the four ministries; the Ministry of Love, Peace, Plenty, and Truth. The excessive censorship in the society leads the citizens to be less individualistic and more alike to one another. Being in an environment where Newspeak is enforced, citizens are unable to express their originality. Orwell's 1984 is a very effective cautionary tale through its characterization of Winston who lacks heroic characteristics, its conflict of man vs society, and its use of dialect.

Society is moulded into its existence through history. The events, the people, the laws, and the beliefs encapsulate the atmosphere of a society and further its expansion of new ideas aimed towards success. Each society embraces different morals and function in ways applicable to what they aspire and to what history has manufactured. Society often influences the behaviours of those within it and encourage confidence in their leader and his or her commandments. However, there are those who refuse to comply with society’s rules, recognizing its faults and believing that a change must occur in order to live happily. In a world composed of the supreme, of watchful eyes, and of laws so extreme that even an immoral thought could have you arrested, one may find themselves struggling to live and attempting to test the rules by rebelling against their almighty sovereign. A character departing on such a journey can be defined as the archetypal hero. The archetypal hero described by Joseph Campbell is “someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” The hero is typically the protagonist of a novel, and when analyzed deeply, possess great self-courage against his or her enemy. He or she will inspire various emotions within the reader and take them on an adventure, conveying significant universal truths.

In the novel 1984 the author, George Orwell, tells us a story about Winston rebellion against the Party by having a secret relationship with Julia. They found a hiding place in Mr. Charrington’s building, by which they spend months together. Being unaware that there was a telescreen hidden they were found and imprisoned in the Ministry of Love. In a chapter of the novel, Julia and Winston experience a rocket bomb giving him the impression that she was dead.

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1984 The title 1984 is significant to the some of the themes throughout the novel which are developing technology, propaganda, and the ability to manipulate the truth. Developing technology is shown throughout the novel when telescreens and bombs become commonly used within society; these are examples of the technology modernizing throughout this time period. A second theme significant to the novel 1984 is propaganda led by using an example of Big Brother and Two Minutes/ Week Hate. Big Brother is a symbol of dominance by the Party and is put on posters and telescreens while the Two Minute /Week Hate is toward Goldstein who is against the party and as an anti-party organization. A last theme significant to the novel 1984 is the ability to manipulate the truth led by the Ministry of Truth. The employees in this department alter and destroy history by using the memory hole therefore at this time, those who control the past, controls the future, as well as the citizens whom abide to them.

In every country, county and city, a government is intact to resolve each community’s issues. It is formed to further perfect each society to become a utopia for its citizens, but even within the government itself, obstacles, such as the balance of the state’s power, remain. This type of dilemma is demonstrated throughout literature; one example can be recognized in George Orwell’s 1984. George Orwell uses literary elements to express social issues of the dystopian society in 1984. Many social issues involving social control from the government is expressed through the literary element of symbolism. Different recurring symbols in 1984 by George Orwell include the government figure Big Brother, Winston Smith’s occupation, and Oceania’s language

Totalitarianism is defined as a political system of government in which those in power have complete control and do not allow people to oppose them. Those in power are a single party dictatorship in which one party controls state, and all other parties are forbidden. Other important features that distinguish or help define totalitarianism include restricted or eliminated constitutional rights, state terrorism, and totalitarian rulers are known as ideological dictators. The government of Oceania, in the novel 1984, is an example of totalitarian society. Germany, under Adolf Hitler's National Socialism is another example of totalitarianism. Orwell's Oceania has both similarities and differences to the totalitarian states of the

Imagine a world where free thought, sex, and any expression of individuality is illegal and may be punishable as death. A world controlled by telescreens watching your every move from going to work to eating lunch and sleeping at home. The nation of Oceania is exactly like this, ruled by a figure known as Big Brother and the Party of London. 1984 takes readers on a journey from the perspective of a low ranking party member, Winston Smith, who works in the Ministry of Truth. Winston’s job is to alter historical records published before the “Revolution” to fit with the Party’s needs. However, Winston is extremely frustrated by the rigid control of the Party. He believes that not everything the Party stated to be true was the truth, leading

The book, 1984 by George Orwell, is about the external and internal conflicts that take place between the two main characters, Winston and Big Brother and how the two government ideas of Democracy and totalitarianism take place within the novel. Orwell wrote the novel around the idea of communism/totalitarianism and how society would be like if it were to take place. In Orwell’s mind democracy and communism created two main characters, Winston and Big Brother. Big Brother represents the idea of the totalitarian party. In comparison to Big Brother, Winston gives and represents the main thought of freedom, in the novel Winston has to worry about the control of the thought police because he knows that the government with kill anyone who

As human beings, there are distinct characteristics that separate us from feral animals; the ability to create, to appreciate art, to curiously question the world and most importantly to sympathize for our kind. However, when that exact nature is stripped from us, we tend to become mindless, restricted, cold, and degraded as an entire race. This is the setting of George Orwell’s last book, 1984. A world where human thought is limited, war and poverty lie on every street corner, and one cannot trust nobody or nothing. It is all due to the one reigning political entity, the Ingsoc Party, who imposes complete power over all aspects of life for all citizens. There is no creative or intellectual thought, no art, culture or history, and no

In the book 1984 by George Orwell, the primary character Winston Smith feels embittered by the control and oppression of the Party, which forbids any form of thinking and individuality. Winston illegally purchases a diary to write down his criminal thoughts: “Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” (61) Despite this being a thoughtcrime, Winston’s courage overpowers the fear he has whenever he writes in his diary in hopes for a revolution against the Party. He believes that the proles make up majority of the population of Oceania, and can overcome the strength of the Thought Police. However, the ignorant proles have no interest in rebelling because nearly all of them

Throughout the novel, 1984, there is a large focus on the Inner and Outer Party; the book focuses on one particular member in the party. It is easy to forget that there are actually more members in Oceania, they are cast over and it seems to be they are often forgotten. This third group of citizens are the proles. They make up the rest of the population. Oceania can function just as fine without them, they are rather just ghosts roaming the streets and taking up space. They are rarely mentioned in the book and when they are mentioned, it is like a passing thought. The proles are described as making up most of the population, but yet they don’t play a major role in 1984. They are also not heavily watched unlike the other two parties; they